Michelle Scotton Franklin, PhD, RN, PMHNP, FNP
@michellescotton.bsky.social
Scientist, Nurse Practitioner, and Assitant Professor @DukeUniversity committed to improving the health and well-being of the disability community and other marginalized communities through community-engaged research, education, and clinical practice.
Rainy-morning reminder 🌧️
Rest is not a reward we earn after doing everything — it’s part of how we stay well, creative, and grounded. This morning I’m leaning into it: still in bed, rain tapping the windows, reading, letting my body, heart, and mind catch up. No rushing. No productivity contest.
Rest is not a reward we earn after doing everything — it’s part of how we stay well, creative, and grounded. This morning I’m leaning into it: still in bed, rain tapping the windows, reading, letting my body, heart, and mind catch up. No rushing. No productivity contest.
January 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Rainy-morning reminder 🌧️
Rest is not a reward we earn after doing everything — it’s part of how we stay well, creative, and grounded. This morning I’m leaning into it: still in bed, rain tapping the windows, reading, letting my body, heart, and mind catch up. No rushing. No productivity contest.
Rest is not a reward we earn after doing everything — it’s part of how we stay well, creative, and grounded. This morning I’m leaning into it: still in bed, rain tapping the windows, reading, letting my body, heart, and mind catch up. No rushing. No productivity contest.
My One Word for 2026: CREATE.
Create new research.
Create offerings that truly serve through my coaching and consulting work.
Create deeper relationships—personally and professionally.
Create space to prioritize my own health.
#OneWord2026 #CreateWithIntention #LeadershipWithHeart
Create new research.
Create offerings that truly serve through my coaching and consulting work.
Create deeper relationships—personally and professionally.
Create space to prioritize my own health.
#OneWord2026 #CreateWithIntention #LeadershipWithHeart
January 2, 2026 at 3:11 AM
My One Word for 2026: CREATE.
Create new research.
Create offerings that truly serve through my coaching and consulting work.
Create deeper relationships—personally and professionally.
Create space to prioritize my own health.
#OneWord2026 #CreateWithIntention #LeadershipWithHeart
Create new research.
Create offerings that truly serve through my coaching and consulting work.
Create deeper relationships—personally and professionally.
Create space to prioritize my own health.
#OneWord2026 #CreateWithIntention #LeadershipWithHeart
Last day of 2025. A remembering. 🐬
I had always wanted to swim with and kiss a dolphin.
And somehow… I forgot.
Not because it didn’t matter.
But because life gets full. Responsibilities pile up. Dreams get quiet.
Then a friend made a simple invitation — a “what if we…”
I had always wanted to swim with and kiss a dolphin.
And somehow… I forgot.
Not because it didn’t matter.
But because life gets full. Responsibilities pile up. Dreams get quiet.
Then a friend made a simple invitation — a “what if we…”
December 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Last day of 2025. A remembering. 🐬
I had always wanted to swim with and kiss a dolphin.
And somehow… I forgot.
Not because it didn’t matter.
But because life gets full. Responsibilities pile up. Dreams get quiet.
Then a friend made a simple invitation — a “what if we…”
I had always wanted to swim with and kiss a dolphin.
And somehow… I forgot.
Not because it didn’t matter.
But because life gets full. Responsibilities pile up. Dreams get quiet.
Then a friend made a simple invitation — a “what if we…”
✨ Optimizing Creativity Collaborative ✨
A guided creative and leadership journey through The Artist’s Way
Four years ago, I pulled The Artist’s Way off a shelf at my favorite bookstore—Buxton Village Books. I didn’t have a plan. I just felt something in me asking for space.
A guided creative and leadership journey through The Artist’s Way
Four years ago, I pulled The Artist’s Way off a shelf at my favorite bookstore—Buxton Village Books. I didn’t have a plan. I just felt something in me asking for space.
December 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
✨ Optimizing Creativity Collaborative ✨
A guided creative and leadership journey through The Artist’s Way
Four years ago, I pulled The Artist’s Way off a shelf at my favorite bookstore—Buxton Village Books. I didn’t have a plan. I just felt something in me asking for space.
A guided creative and leadership journey through The Artist’s Way
Four years ago, I pulled The Artist’s Way off a shelf at my favorite bookstore—Buxton Village Books. I didn’t have a plan. I just felt something in me asking for space.
This week I am in Buxton, on Hatteras Island, North Carolina—a place that invites me to slow all the way down.
As the year closes, I’m taking time to reflect on what’s been, thoughtfully plan for what’s ahead, and get quiet enough to hear myself again.
As the year closes, I’m taking time to reflect on what’s been, thoughtfully plan for what’s ahead, and get quiet enough to hear myself again.
December 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This week I am in Buxton, on Hatteras Island, North Carolina—a place that invites me to slow all the way down.
As the year closes, I’m taking time to reflect on what’s been, thoughtfully plan for what’s ahead, and get quiet enough to hear myself again.
As the year closes, I’m taking time to reflect on what’s been, thoughtfully plan for what’s ahead, and get quiet enough to hear myself again.
Sunday ritual:
Local bookstore. Writing. One beautiful home design book to slow my mind.
Today it was The Principles of Pretty Rooms—and suddenly I was dreaming up the living room of my future beach house 🌊
What inspires or relaxes you?
And can you give yourself a few minutes of it today?
Local bookstore. Writing. One beautiful home design book to slow my mind.
Today it was The Principles of Pretty Rooms—and suddenly I was dreaming up the living room of my future beach house 🌊
What inspires or relaxes you?
And can you give yourself a few minutes of it today?
December 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Sunday ritual:
Local bookstore. Writing. One beautiful home design book to slow my mind.
Today it was The Principles of Pretty Rooms—and suddenly I was dreaming up the living room of my future beach house 🌊
What inspires or relaxes you?
And can you give yourself a few minutes of it today?
Local bookstore. Writing. One beautiful home design book to slow my mind.
Today it was The Principles of Pretty Rooms—and suddenly I was dreaming up the living room of my future beach house 🌊
What inspires or relaxes you?
And can you give yourself a few minutes of it today?
Thrilled to share that I co-authored “A Roadmap for Accelerating Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities using PCORnet” with an incredible group of experts from across the US. And I’ll be able to share another update on this work soon!!!
📄 www.pcori.org/sites/defaul...
📄 www.pcori.org/sites/defaul...
September 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Thrilled to share that I co-authored “A Roadmap for Accelerating Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities using PCORnet” with an incredible group of experts from across the US. And I’ll be able to share another update on this work soon!!!
📄 www.pcori.org/sites/defaul...
📄 www.pcori.org/sites/defaul...
4 years ago today, I shared this image of Hatteras OBX and wrote:
“No rain, no rainbows.
Cloudy days always close and lead to sun-filled tomorrows.
So I will continue to practice sitting in the present with all it includes… so I can see tomorrow even more
clearly and fully alive.”
💜
Still true.
“No rain, no rainbows.
Cloudy days always close and lead to sun-filled tomorrows.
So I will continue to practice sitting in the present with all it includes… so I can see tomorrow even more
clearly and fully alive.”
💜
Still true.
September 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
4 years ago today, I shared this image of Hatteras OBX and wrote:
“No rain, no rainbows.
Cloudy days always close and lead to sun-filled tomorrows.
So I will continue to practice sitting in the present with all it includes… so I can see tomorrow even more
clearly and fully alive.”
💜
Still true.
“No rain, no rainbows.
Cloudy days always close and lead to sun-filled tomorrows.
So I will continue to practice sitting in the present with all it includes… so I can see tomorrow even more
clearly and fully alive.”
💜
Still true.
Please join us next Tuesday to hear our PCORI project finding and learn from incredible North Carolina and National Disability Advocates about advancing health research with the IDD community. It is free and open to everyone. Register here duke.is/7/nr6b
June 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Please join us next Tuesday to hear our PCORI project finding and learn from incredible North Carolina and National Disability Advocates about advancing health research with the IDD community. It is free and open to everyone. Register here duke.is/7/nr6b
It’s a beautiful, quiet night on campus. And this view of the #dukechapel never grows old. #foreverduke
April 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It’s a beautiful, quiet night on campus. And this view of the #dukechapel never grows old. #foreverduke
My design inspo for today. #sabbathrest #knowandbeknown
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My design inspo for today. #sabbathrest #knowandbeknown